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Enterprise Architect => General Board => Topic started by: lskelly on February 15, 2002, 08:01:35 am

Title: Copying objects
Post by: lskelly on February 15, 2002, 08:01:35 am

I'm doing some modeling of the physical components of a system.  Not all of them are defined initially on a diagram, they are just members of packages.  Yet I'll need to add them to diagrams, and I don't want to drag an instance onto the diagram as its not really an instance.  A link to the original object is what I need.

However I can't find a way to copy an object that is not on a diagram onto the clipboard, so I can paste as a linked object.  Is there any way to do this from the project explorer view?  Can you add one?

Or even better, to prompt the user to specify, on a drop event, whether to create an instance, linked object or new object (with the ability to default it so it doesn't drive other people nuts).  This would also be useful for cloning objects.

Larry

Title: Re: Copying objects
Post by: gsparks on February 16, 2002, 04:15:50 am

Hi,

Creating a new instance when dragging is the current default behaviour. You can change this on the Diagram page of the Local Settings dialog (clear the AutoInstance check box).

You can also invert the current default behaviour by holding down the control key when dragging and dropping

Hope this helps,
Geoff Sparks

Title: Re: Copying objects
Post by: LarrySkelly on February 18, 2002, 06:45:25 am

Hi Geoff,

That works well enough.  ;D  Thanks.  

I tried to review the documentation as best I could but I missed this setting.

Larry